'Learn something new every day on e-bay if you read all the descriptions! :woot: BP

skyway

03-09-2013, 10:25 PM

Is that like back in the 70's when the General got in trouble for putting Chevy engines in Oldsmobiles?

BobPalma

03-09-2013, 10:31 PM

Is that like back in the 70's when the General got in trouble for putting Chevy engines in Oldsmobiles?

'Wait a minute; I just thought of something!

Perhaps that 1961 OHV Packard Six was an experimental half of the proposed 1962 Packard V-12! I mean, if Pontiac could half their V8 for the Tempest Four, why couldn't Studebaker-Packard do the same thing in reverse, introducing the half-an-engine first? :ohmy:

Ah-HA! BP

JDP

03-09-2013, 10:50 PM

'Wait a minute; I just thought of something!

Perhaps that 1961 OHV Packard Six was an experimental half of the proposed 1962 Packard V-12! I mean, if Pontiac could half their V8 for the Tempest Four, why couldn't Studebaker-Packard do the same thing in reverse, introducing the half-an-engine first? :ohmy:

Ah-HA! BP

The Packard V12 story takes me way back. I recall many of us getting TW attention to that fake story.

62champ

03-09-2013, 11:14 PM

The Packard V12 story takes me way back. I recall many of us getting TW attention to that fake story.

What was the end result of all that? Remember all the discussion but not the outcome...

8E45E

03-10-2013, 01:01 AM

'Wait a minute; I just thought of something!

Perhaps that 1961 OHV Packard Six was an experimental half of the proposed 1962 Packard V-12! I mean, if Pontiac could half their V8 for the Tempest Four, why couldn't Studebaker-Packard do the same thing in reverse, introducing the half-an-engine first?